Improvement in kid-glove envelopes



F. HEG LE. Kid-GIOV@ Envleiopes.

Patented july 30,1872.

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`FORTUNE EEGLE, oE NEw vonk, N. Y.

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Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 129,890, dated July 30, 1872.

. v SPEensIcATioN.`

` To all whom ftmay concern:

Beit known that I, FORTUNE HEGLE, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Kid-Glove Envelopes; and I do hereby declare that the followingn is afull description of the same.

The object of my invention is to obtain greater convenience of use than in the ordinary way of 'packing gloves second, cheapness; and, third, a sales-check registration of the number, size, color, and price of each pair of gloves sold. As explanatory of the objects of the invention, a brief notice of the method of packing gloves will be given:

. Owing to the very delicate colors of opera and other fancy kid gloves, `and to prevent `their `spotting by contact with other-colored gloves or by exposure to a damp atmosphere,

all such fancy-colored kid gloves are separately and at full length wrapped in clean white.

paper and packed in a box edgewise up. In this Way the ends of the Wrapper are open and the glove liable to slip out at the open ends if -not carefully handled. When the gloves are sold' this piece lof wrapping-paper is thrown away by the counter-clerk, and by custom of all good dealers in gloves they are folded in half and then placed in an ordinary letter-envelope and deliveredV to the purchaser. In some instances a long sack-shaped envelope has been used instead ofthe loose wrapper, and

` the gloves dropped in fingers downward. As

this envelope is made narrow so as to only admit the glove as it comes from the maker, it is found to be quite impracticable to insert a glove after being stretched as purchasers generally require, and therefore the envelope is generally thrown away anda letter-envelope used instead. Another objection to the sack-shaped envelopes isthat where a purchaser has made an examination of a dozen pairs of gloves before getting suited it requires a great deal of time to replace them again in the envelopes. It is customary, also, in all respectable establishments doing any considerable amount of trade to keep a record of the gloves sold, size, color, and price by a system of duplicate saleschecks furnished by the counter-clerk at the time of selling the gloves as a credit for stock sold by him, and a check on the cashier for per or sack in which the gloves are packed..

The nature of my invention, therefore, is to make an envelope which combines the convenience of the wrapper and the security of the pocket with the registration, counter, and stock checks all in one 5 but to describe my invention more particularly I will refer to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, the same letters of reference Wherever they occur referring to like parts.

Figure 1 is a back view of the wrapper-envelope with duplicate registration-coupons attached. Fig. 2 is a view of the same when folded to inclose the glove. Fig. 3 is a front lview of the wrapper, showing the position of the glove with the iingers inserted in thepocket thereof. Fig. 4 is a front view of the wrapper and pocket with the coupons cut off. Fig. 5 is a representation of the pocket with the glove folded therein and the end of the wrapper folded down as` an envelope. Fig. 6 is an edge view of the pocket and wrapper as represented in Fig. 4. Fig. 7 is an edge view of Fig. 5. Fig. 8 is a detached view of the registration-checks. Figs. 9 and 10 are detached views of the two duplicate coupon-counter and cash-checks.

Letter A represents the wrapper of about six inches in width, or more or less, according to size of glove, by about fifteen inches long, or other suitable length, according to length of glove. About one-third of the length of the wrapper is folded down to form a pocket B, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, so as to admit of holding the finger-end of the glove therein. The object of .this is twofold-first, to hold the glove in the Wrapper without being soiled while being examined; and, second, to admit of an inspection of the color and trimmin gs of the glove without removal from the package or wrapper and soiling with the fingers, as would be the case if taken entirely from the Wrapper. To inclose the glove entirely in the Wrapper it is made broad enough so as to admit of the margins of the wrapper being folded down length- Wise of it on the lines G and D, thus entirely concealing the glove, as represented in Fig. 2. When thus inclosed in the pocket-wrapper it is packed edgewise in a box for the trade. For the purpose of registering the number, size, color, and price for which the gloves are sold,

the upper` end of the Wrapper is formed into duplicate coupon-checks E and F by means of perforated lines G and H, on the backs of which are printed the name of the firm, and the number, size, color, and price ofthe gloves. The number is also printed on the body of the wrapp er j ust underneath the coupons, as sho Wn in Figs. l, 2, and 5. The object of these coupons is to register the number of the gloves, their color, and size, and, at the same time, be a check upon the counter-clerks sales and cashclerks receipts. Thus, when a pair of gloves thus been made the gloves are then folded in halfthat is, the lingers down upon the handand slipped into the pocket, and the upper end of the Wrapper folded down as an envelope, as shown in Fig. 5, with the duplicate number of the glove exposed thereon. By this means the purchaser keeps a record of the quality of the glove, and by reference to it at any future time may obtainjthe same quality again by making it known.

Having now described my invention of a new article of manufacture, of packing and registering envelopes or pocket-Wrappers for kid gloves, Iwill proceedk to set forth what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States: l

I claim as a new article of manufacture, an envelope or kid-glove Wrapper made and folded and having duplicate perforated coupons as described, and for the purposes set forth.

FORTUNE HEGLE.

Witnesses CHARLES L. BARRITT, CHAs. M. HALL. 

